Christian Art

The art of God is life. The art of man is man caring about the art of God. Art is worked media that enact the play between the artist's state of consciousness and his/her perceived interactions with life. Art is aesthetic inquiry by artists and art perceives alike that explore, with childlike wonder, the art of God. These researches and experimentations serve to develop people's grasp of the art of God - the art of God including the people themselves.

Little is known about Christian art in the first two centuries after the death of Jesus. Among the earliest manifestations extant are the early 3d-century paintings on the walls of the catacombs in Rome. Whereas the style resembles that of secular Roman wall painting, the subject matter consists mainly of biblical figures. Narrative cycles covered the upper walls, triumphal arch, and apse of basilican churches. The Christian faith was bound by the authority of sacred writings, and it placed increasing importance on the production of books and their illumination.

Scenes of the life of Jesus or more ceremonious compositions were created, showing the enthroned Christ receiving the homage of the apostles. Christian places of worship were of necessity inconspicuous and had no fixed architectural form. Early Christian builders adapted structures that had long been used in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. 

For me, Egyptian art is the most striking impression in the Ancient art, because Egyptian art is often highly realistic, while the Classical art Classical art dates back to as early as 500 B.C. during the rise of the Greek Empire. The Greeks celebrated the human figure through sculpture in highly naturalistic detail. I believe that two eras of art have influence in my personal style as an artist because, because even though I don't draw really good at realistic styles, I can picture it in my mind the details of these two eras.

My most interest predominant artistic style and subject matter is the creation of Lekythos (Archaic, black-figure. Attributed to the Amasis Painter) because it vey unique, it pictures the working girls in these eras. In Ancient art, I like the  Persepolis, because it still inspire the visitors from far and near because it is very beautiful. 

For me, it is hard to create a art work inspired by the two peroids of time, because they said it all. They have the most beautiful art works in all of the time. But I guess we can still do art works as beautiful as they, we just need a inspiration and some originality. 

Seen Sun 3:29 PM

(Second Sem) 4th week: Realistic Art =)

I just want to share first the meaning of the three kinds of art. The first one is the realistic art is art that takes as its subject real objects, scenes, events, people and situations that exist in the world, and attempts to render them mostly as they actually are to our visual sense, as well as to our emotions and mind. Second is art as alteration, this art is is a broad term that encompasses many styles and genres 
of art. And lastly is the distorted art also known as abstract art. Abstract art can be a painting or sculpture  that does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world - even in an extremely distorted or exaggerated way. 

I prefer the distorted art because for me, I can express my feelings through exaggerated way, I can paint my emotions in different way. And I like it than the other kind of art because its more colorful and more expressible.

Karin Kuhlmann's abstract art

 

(Second Sem) 3rd week: Impromptu Art!

What is Impromptu? Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance, unrehearsed; spontaneous; extempore. That means Impromptu Art is planed in advance, it is an art that portrays moving things in advance.  I experienced some difficulty in drawing my impromptu art, because it's moving, it has no constant place. I don't know how to draw a moving person, eh. So I decided to capture in my mind the moving person I want to draw! It's kinda hard, my drawing is a bit of messy looking. 

I thought that the impromptu art is easy, but it's not! It`s hard because everyone is moving around. In our case, our professor asked us to draw the sporty people around us. I draw a man, playing a volleyball. It's kinda creepy , I don't think that is an example of an impromptu art! Hahah! =)

(Second Sem) Week 2: Overview :)

Perseverance is an abstract painting by Shawn McNulty.

POP ART of Madonna

I choose the Abstract Expressionism, because the artist can express his feelings in to this kind of art even it is little confusing understanding the piece. It is also the kind of art that even we don't know the story behind the painting, we understand it how he portray it in the piece. I also like the pop art, because it is so cool, we can see it in different color much better than the original one. We also can use the pop art in our some of our business like t-shirt printing, for sure, it will be the best seller. Anyway, I think pop art for me is the most modern in all kind of art, because we can easily understand the message of the art.

Aisle of Basilica of San Sebastian

For me, the influential era of art is the Classical Art: Art of Likeness, because the structures before are so magnificent, it is very catchy in the eyes of the people. Even we are in the modern era today, and a lots of architects designs modern structure, the classical structures are still the best ones. Like the Post Office in Manila, it's like the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, it is so classical and elegant looking. And also the Medieval Art period, we can see it in the Churches. Most of the Churches here in the Philippines are very detailed. Even the stained glass is very elegant.

Post Office in Manila

There's a lot of old Churches here in the Philippines, like San Fernando de Dilao Parish Church in Paco, Manila, Binondo Church, Manila Cathedral and many more. Those Churches are very detailed and admiring. It is really a place where we can pray solemnly.

(Second Sem) Week1: Who is Mona Lisa?

Who is Mona Lisa? I guess a lot of us know Mona Lisa, but do we know who is the girl behind that drawing? Well, I guess none, even me, I researched about Mona Lisa before I went to this site. So, Mona Lisa or Lisa del Giocondo is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman by Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian artist who is also a great architect, inventor  and other. Leonardo da Vinci began painting Mona Lisa in Florence, Italy. 

The real name of Mona Lisa is Lisa Gherardini Giocondo. She is called "La Giocondo" in Italian and "La Joconde" in French. Lisa Giocondo is really beautiful, imagine if she is alive right now, for sure, she will get tons of suitor. Da vinci took more than 4 years to paint Mona Lisa.The painting has been a part of France's royal collection since the early 16th century. King Francis I purchased the painting from Leonardo after the artist accepted his invitation to live in France in 1517.

The painting hang today in La Louvre Museum in France, the museum gets 6 million visits every year. And did you know that Mona Lisa is kept in a bulletproof box and every year Mona Lisa receives a check-up in which the box surrounding it is opened and the climatic conditions. 

La Louvre Museum , Paris, France

Week 10: Things to do to enhance creativity.

My five things to enhance my creativity:

-First, we need to imagine what we're going to do, imagining things are free so take time to imagine.
-Second, we need to explore what are the latest in the scene of your field, in Multimedia, we need to be updated in softwares that we are going to use, for example, we need to update our Photoshop for the new trends in editing.
 -Third is  be curious, ask what are the new ones, why it is like that, and how it was done.
 -Fourth is practice, practice what you are in to, it is very important because practicing makes perfect.
 -And fifth is enjoy,  we don't need to be a geek in doing these things, we also need to enjoy things.

We just need to combine these 5 things and surely, we will enhance our creativity.